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LEARNING ABOUT PRESERVING NATURE
About 110 students and teachers from 16 participating schools from Kuala Lumpur, Melaka, Perak,
Sabah and Selangor attended the inaugural International Eco-Schools Malaysia Conference in
November 2012 in Matang Mangrove Eco-Educational Centre, Kuala Sepetang in Taiping, Perak.
One of the event’s main objectives was to instill knowledge on the seven-step methodology
developed to be used by students to find solutions and take actions on environmental issues. The
conference also served to help students gain a practical understanding of the nine themes: water,
waste, energy, climate change, biodiversity and nature, school grounds, sustainable transport,
healthy living and Local Agenda 21.
Activities included hands-on workshops, field trips to sites of interest in Kuala Sepetang, such
as boat expeditions along the mangrove swamp, and visits to aquaculture farms and a charcoal
factory. There were also lectures by speakers from other environmental organizations.
The Eco-Schools Programme is an environmental management, certification, and environmental
education programme for schools. The programme provides opportunity to empower students
as agents of change toward a sustainable environment. An international initiative by the
Foundation of Environmental Education (FEE), it is coordinated by WWF-Malaysia as part of
our environmental education efforts. Globally, there are 63 FEE country members, 53 of which
are participating in the Eco-Schools programme.
53NUMBER OF
COUNTRIES
THAT ARE
MEMBERS
OF FEE’S
ECO-SCHOOL
PROGRAMME
ENVIRONMENT AND YOU
The Environment and You project or officially known as the Sustainable School – Environmental
Award: Curriculum Component project is a collaborative pilot project with the Curriculum
Development Division of the Ministry of Education Malaysia, Universiti Malaya and Universiti
Sains Malaysia.
The aim of the project is to develop an effective environmental education model to bring about
behavioural change through the formal education system. It focuses on the current curriculum
where Environmental Education Kit (EE Kit) were developed for four subjects (Bahasa Malaysia,
English, Science and Geography) for Form 1, 2 and 3. This year marks the end of the second phase
of the project. Through the years, the project has successfully reached out to some 600 teachers
from the four pilot schools, namely Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Lanchang, Pahang; Sekolah
Menengah Kebangsaan Pinang Tunggal, Kedah; Sekolah Menengah Taman Kota Jaya, Johor; and
Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Damansara Jaya, Selangor through various capacity building events.
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF CONSERVATION
In conjunction with WWF-Malaysia’s 40th anniversary in 2012, a celebration was held in
Ba’Kelalan in October with our Eco-School Programme partner, Sekolah Kebangsaan Ba’Kelalan,
and the Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Highlands of Borneo (FORMADAT).
The celebration at Ba’Kelalan was a testament of WWF-Malaysia’s commitment to the Heart of
Borneo (HoB), one of the Global Priority Areas identified by the WWF Network. Ba’Kelalan is an
area that crosses two international borders – Malaysia and Indonesia – signatories of the HoB
Trilateral Declaration with Brunei.
Local and school communities are working together to increase the appreciation of the natural
forest, river ecosystem, cultural and traditional knowledge through sustainable farming and
responsible eco-tourism.
SK Ba’Kelalan is the first of two schools in Sarawak to participate in the Eco-Schools Programme.
The other school is SMK Batu Lintang in Kuching. Four rivers in Ba’Kelalan saw significant
improvements in terms of cleanliness and water quality after the programme was carried out
mainly by Primary 4, 5 and 6 pupils through continuous monitoring and awareness efforts.
35
NUMBER
OF GLOBAL PRIORITY
AREAS RECOGNIZED
WORLDWIDE
720
200
STUDENTS
AND
TEACHERS
HAVE BENEFITTED
FROM THE
PROJECT
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